Causality between Metaphysics and Methodology

Nations are more than geo-political bodies, more than collections of people and institutions within defined sovereign territories. Nations are discursive constructs, In recent years scholars have increasingly recognised that discourses of national identity are gendered and racialised in ways that both mirror and mould power relations. This book examines links between gender, race and national identity by analysing a range of mass mediated and pop-cultural texts' in four nations, Australia, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States. The book has a broad empirical base and offers an analysis using the techniques of traditional content analysis, Critical Discourse Analysis, comparative sociology and feminist cultural studies. It will certainly appeal across these subdisciplines.Reiss, Julian is the author of 'Causality between Metaphysics and Methodology', published 2007 under ISBN 9780415394222 and ISBN 0415394228.